Calvin Synod Herald, 1990 (90. évfolyam, 2-6. szám)

1990-11-01 / 6. szám

CALVIN SYNOD HERALD- 6 -REFORMÁTUSOK LAPJA Harming the Oil and all that goes with it By Dr. Stephen Szabó The vivid presentations of the fate of the false prophet of Kinland, Jeffry Lundren, and his followers of a horrible Cult in the wake of the similar one in Guyana not so long ago; the never ending portraits of an other false prophet — of not Christ but Moha­med — in Iraq; the hourly demonstrations of unbelie­vable horrifying incidents from Baghdad, Kuwait and Saudi-Arabia, all and unceas­ingly demonstrate to us and — unfortu­nately — will continue to demonstrate to us the vivid truth expressed by our Lord in Mt. 7:19: “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down — and will be cut down, and thrown into the fire and will be thrown into the fire!” History does and will say Amen in a very drastic way to the behavior of Jeffrey and Don Lundren and Saddam Hussein and all their like and sort, as it did before our own seeing eyes to Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and the rest of the continuing line of evil doing false prophets of our Age! The Book of Revelations has always been — and will always remain — the Book of deep mysteries. No wonder it always has and will continue to make grand impres­sions on the minds and hearts of writers, poets, thinkers, film-producers of all ages and times. Who would not remember the “Four Horsemen of Apocolyps” filmed after First World War (making Rudolph Va­lentino famous) filmed after Second World War again. Not mentioning many others based on different portions of Apostle John’s immortal Classic from the Holy Bible. The allegories, symbols, parables of this mysterious Book unceasingly offer themselves to human mind for newer and newer solutions. The four angels opening the four seals in chapter 6 is one of the intriguing ones in that Book. In the 6th verse of chapter 6 we reed: "from a voice saying, in the midst of the four living creatures, a quart of wheat for a denarius and 3 quarts of barley for a denarius, but do not harm the oil!” ‘See that thou hurt not the Oil!” — “Do not dare to touch the Oil!” This passage for a longtime remained most mysterious to my own mind. The meaning suddenly became evident to my thinking when I came to the city of Baghdad myself later in life. By the grace of God I had the priviledge to travel around the Globe physically speaking and not only once. Through travels places and historical happenings come much closer to your understanding and you somehow appreciate even every day happenings and politics very much differently. Personal experience is the best teaching Master of Life. I came to Baghdad in — so called — peace times. Soon I discovered in our age we have no such, or if we do, not too long! I came to this City of the Arabian Nights, the place 1001 fabulous nights. I was planning to stay for a longer visit. Planned to visit all Biblical places between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers nearby: the Garden of Eden, the ancient ruins of the Babylonian Empire, the place where Shadrack, Meshack, Abednego where put into the fiery furnace by King Nebu­­chadnezear, the Wall on which the inscrip­tion was written to King Belshazar: “Me­ne! Tekel! Upharsin!” — “Your days are numbered! You were weighed! You will perish!” That never took place. On my first day in Baghdad I did go to visit the Holy Temple of the Muslims: Kadamain. Since I was not a muslim I was not al­lowed to enter. Few days before I was allowed to Haggia Sophia in Istambul with my shoes removed. I was even al­lowed to Shwe Dagon Pagoda of the Buddhist World in Rangoon Burma with my socks removed, barefooted. But in Baghdad not even with all these restric­tions. Then, much to my surprise, I only spent one night in Iraq, in the city of Baghdad, as the book calles: the city of “A Thousand Nights and One Night.” — For me it happened to be a night, one night! Before breakfest in the second morning in the Baghdad Hotel the bellboy came into my room. To my luck he was a Chris­tian and he knew I was a Protestant clergyman. He gave me a fatal warning and I was indeed dumfounded! He asked me to leave Iraq at once if I want to save my life. Next day — he said — the arabs will massacre all British in the city of Baghdad. I told him I am not British. “I know, he said. But they will not ask you, since you are white, in their eyes you are British, and will kill you. Thanks God, since he was so serious and honest, I beleived him and left at once with the first train out of Baghdad. He saved my life. Next day the arabs — indeed — massacred all non­­arabs on the streets of the city. When I asked this good Christian Arabian boy: Why? His answer was: be­cause of the Oil! Though the British paid plenty for the Oil, still British & Oil were synonyms. Now it’s not British anymore and alone, it is American. “See that Thou hurt not the Oil”! “Do not dare to touch the Oil”! The meaning of the Book of Revela­tions suddenly turned out to be a revela­tion to my own mind! Saddam Hussein of Iraq, whose first name means: “One who confronts”, con­fronts us with all his military might. As they call him there: the “Knight of the Arab Nation” in that city of “Arabian Nights”, embarked on a cruel annaxation of an innocent little sheikdom next door for the Oil. It is about Oil, and nothing else but Oil! The Love and Hate well­­known muslim dilemma confronts us, wheather we like or dislike. The unholy “Holy War” is upon us! Muslim leaders declared: „Anyone, who dies in fighting Americans, will enter straight to heaven as a martyr.” — because the holiest two places of Islam, Mecca and Medina, are in S. Arabia. Not too long ago we did read how hundreds of arabs were killed in the tunnel rushing to the Mecca shrine. How many will now be killed in a “Holy War” not for the shrine, that no one wants to take away from the Muslim World, but for Oil?! What is war? “Holy” or unholy? The accumulation of Hatred in human hearts! And this accumulation can be brought

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